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16.000 Bitcoins worth about $141 million have been transferred from the Mt. Gox wallet. That’s the amount that Mt. Gox trustee, Nobuaki Kobayashi has moved from 4 well-known Mt. Gox addresses according to CryptoGround, a site that monitors the former exchange’s remaining wallets.

Kobayashi, a Tokyo based lawyer, has been in charge with liquidating digital assets for the exchange’s former creditors who are still entitled for the recovery of their funds after the exchange closed its operations in 2014. So far the trustee revealed that in September, 2017 about $400 million worth of BTC and BCH have been sold, which might have caused some massive panic selling and downwards pressure during that time on the markets.

With the current transfers, speculation is going around whether the trustee is planning to dump coins again directly through the exchanges or will finally sell them over the counter. If the first is the case, traders should expect more volatility and rapid price swings as using OTC channels would let the price mostly untouched as currently there is a lot of demand for these trades.

Even more rumors have been floating around whether the Wednesday decline in BTC price was already caused by a sell off below market price from the new wallets. Technically it is possible but there is no confirmation released from Kobayashi yet.